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Trick question. If you stay as healthy and have as good relationships when you're starting a startup as not then "you're doing it wrong." Or you're just unheal

by imsteve 19y ago

Trick question. If you stay as healthy and have as good relationships when you're starting a startup as not then "you're doing it wrong." Or you're just unhealthy and antisocial to start with. Tradeoffs...

jamiequint 19y ago
Sure there are always tradeoffs, basically you are trading your time (a limited resource) so necessarily other things will suffer. But where do you draw the line, how do you find the balance?
- staunch 19y ago
  You face reality and narrow your priorities down to the very few things that really matter to you. Then you work hard on them and hope things work out okay. That's as far as I've figured it out anyway ;-) The idea of balance seems pretty academic to me. Maybe it makes sense in the long-term, but if you mean splitting your time equally at all times I think that's the path towards doing an equally bad job at everything.
  - aswanson 19y ago
    The idea of balance as a virtue always annoyed me. What great things are achieved in equilibrium? There should always be favoring, desiring, striving. They can balance me in my coffin.
  - akkartik 19y ago
    I agree. The right way to find balance is to focus on one thing, to be hugely imbalanced in your pursuit of it, and then to leave it when the time is right. If you follow a routine in what you eat, and eat the same set of foods all the time, you risk exaggerating small imbalances over time, with implications for your health. To avoid this you can either spend a lot of time thinking about what you eat (with implications for balance in other areas), or you just change it up and chase some variety every now and then. Try new things. Listen to your body when it tells you it's had too much of this or that. With 'listen to your body' this thread connects up with this one where DanielBMarkham talks about introspection: http://scrapbook.akkartik.name/post/17541151 http://scrapbook.akkartik.name/post/17541151 (Context: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73433 http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?http://news.ycombinator.com...)

by imsteve 19y ago

jamiequint 19y ago

Sure there are always tradeoffs, basically you are trading your time (a limited resource) so necessarily other things will suffer. But where do you draw the line, how do you find the balance?

staunch 19y ago
You face reality and narrow your priorities down to the very few things that really matter to you. Then you work hard on them and hope things work out okay. That's as far as I've figured it out anyway ;-) The idea of balance seems pretty academic to me. Maybe it makes sense in the long-term, but if you mean splitting your time equally at all times I think that's the path towards doing an equally bad job at everything.
- aswanson 19y ago
  The idea of balance as a virtue always annoyed me. What great things are achieved in equilibrium? There should always be favoring, desiring, striving. They can balance me in my coffin.
- akkartik 19y ago
  I agree. The right way to find balance is to focus on one thing, to be hugely imbalanced in your pursuit of it, and then to leave it when the time is right. If you follow a routine in what you eat, and eat the same set of foods all the time, you risk exaggerating small imbalances over time, with implications for your health. To avoid this you can either spend a lot of time thinking about what you eat (with implications for balance in other areas), or you just change it up and chase some variety every now and then. Try new things. Listen to your body when it tells you it's had too much of this or that. With 'listen to your body' this thread connects up with this one where DanielBMarkham talks about introspection: http://scrapbook.akkartik.name/post/17541151 http://scrapbook.akkartik.name/post/17541151 (Context: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73433 http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?http://news.ycombinator.com...)